Reflections Of A Mirror
"When you go to the woods / To gather hedges / Remember the girl / Who writes on the edges" (Johnson 35). The talented Joyce Carol Oates is the author of many novels, short stories, poems, and essays, including one of her most autobiographical novels Marya: A Life (1986). Joyce was the type of girl who "not only wrote on the edges but, in a very real sense, lived there (Johnson 38). At the ripe age of 13 Joyce already had a sense of personal marginality and an adult view of herself as "an invisible woman" (Johnson 35). Joyce's character Marya is almost a mirrored image of Joyce and it would be impossible to deny that a connection exists between the creator, Joyce, and the created, Marya. Joyce's fictional character Marya was deeply influenced by a combination of Carolina's and Joyce's childhood, as well as some of Joyce's adult life, her being a victim of molestation, and her yearning for invisibility.
"Joyce remarked that behind all her fiction lay an ‘imperishable sense of......
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